Assistant Psychologist

We are excited to offer the opportunity for an assistant psychologist to work with our friendly Stroke Psychology team to help complete an exciting project that aims to help improve the lives of stroke survivors and their carers.
We need your help to evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of a brief psycho-educational intervention with stroke survivors and carers during their post-acute stroke rehabilitation.
You will be working directly with Clinical Psychologists in the delivery and analysis of the project that aims to empower patients / carers to manage the challenges associated with Life After Hospital., With supervision and support from the project leads, your key responsibilities in this project will include:
Engage with stroke MDT to learn about their role with stroke survivors; attend MDT meetings on Thursdays
Liaise / educate MDT about the project
Oversee management of follow-up (letter templates, scheduling)
Conduct follow up telephone calls and semi-structured interviews with stroke survivors and carers; complete semi-structured interviews with MDT members
Data collection and analysis
Assist with written report of project / findings and submit to appropriate conferences.
There may be additional opportunities to co-run therapeutic groups on the ward under the supervision of a clinical psychologist.
You will have weekly supervision with the clinical psychologist., Please see attached Job Description; this is a standard format for all assistant psychologists and details the essential qualifications and experience requirements. Please refer to Main Duties of job in the advert for specific details about this role.
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

The successful candidate will have experience with:
+ - Working with people with physical health and/or neurological conditions
+ - Working within a multi-disciplinary team
+ - Experience of doing research in a health-related field
+ - Experience of completing literature reviews
+ - Experience of using Excel and SPSS to input and analyse data
You will be a confident and compassionate communicator with good multi-tasking and time management skills. You need to be able to work autonomously but also know when to seek support.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.